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Investigate vulnerability: protobuf-python has a potential Denial of Service issue

Issue created from vulnerability 14

Description:

Any project that uses Protobuf pure-Python backend to parse untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups, recursive messages or a series of SGROUP tags can be corrupted by exceeding the Python recursion limit.

Reporter: Alexis Challande, Trail of Bits Ecosystem Security Team ecosystem@trailofbits.com

Solution:

Upgrade to versions 4.25.8, 5.29.5, 6.31.1 or above.

Identifiers:

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  • Name: gemnasium-python